Lia Thomas has described policies that ban trans athletes from competitive sports as “a gut punch”. The trans swimmer was commenting on World Aquatics’ decision to effectively bar trans women from the women’s category. The governing body, formerly known as FINA, adopted a policy in 2022 which decreed that transgender women who wanted to compete […]
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Sanae Takaichi has become Japan’s first female prime minister, following an overwhelming vote in parliament on Tuesday (21 October). Known as Japan’s Iron Lady, Liberal Democratic Party leader Takaichi is the fourth person to take on the top job since Shinzo Abe stood down in 2020, the BBC reported. As well being an advocate of […]
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Education secretary Bridget Phillipson seemed unable to provide an answer after a trans woman quizzed her about where she’s allowed to go to the toilet. During an interview with trans journalist and writer Izzy Dine, published online on Tuesday (21 October), the women and equalities minister was asked what bathroom she thought Dine and other […]
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Scientists have named an intersex spider after genderfluid character Inazuma in animated pirate series One Piece. It may not be the same as finding long-lost treasure, but a team of researchers at the Chulalongkorn University Museum of Natural History, in Thailand, discovered the new species of “half-male, half-female’ spider in Bangkok. The new specimens, now […]
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